Sup guys.
I mean the way the faculty are administering the process is a sheer mess.
Admission is based solely on academic merit and a first in law from a red brick English university is an all but officially stated guarantee of admission - trust me on this one.
My tutor said he would investigate after the deadline had passed.
That makes it very unlikely that you will get in if your first is not from a red-brick, no matter how high your grades are?
After all surely Cambridge are virtually oversubscribed already once they have given places to those with firsts from red-brick+ and there are very few places left for those of us at rubbish universities? (I'm a mature student, only place that I could study was a non red-brick).
Do Cambridge publish any kind of admission statistics? Curious to look at this in more detail
I'd take everything that's said in here with a pinch of salt. Getting a First from a red-brick is by no means a guarantee. First of all, I know people from my university (Russel Group, Top 5) who got a First and were rejected last year. One of my best friends is doing the LL.M. at Cambridge and at least half the people came from newer universities or foreign universities that aren't even ranked.
I am pretty sure they look at your profile as a whole. Just think about who you would you prefer: a student from a red-brick university with poor references and virtually no work experience or someone from a newer university with an excellent CV and strong references?
If two candidates have the same profile your university might give you an edge. Apart from that I don't think it's that important where you did your undergrad.
Getting a first from a redbrick is essentially, in all but exceptional (and it has yet to happen) cases, a de facto guarantee of admission.
I know people who got firsts but didn't get admission either - but they applied whilst still at uni, and therefore didn't have accrued firsts.
As for people who are not from redbricks - I said nothing about them whatsoever - my post is no discouragement to them (in fact I recently just posted that one of the best legal academics who taught me went to do her first law degree from one of the lowest rated unis in the country, followed by the Cambridge LLM and now is at UCL).
Foreign students are a whole different game.
<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>Sup guys.
I mean the way the faculty are administering the process is a sheer mess.
Admission is based solely on academic merit and a first in law from a red brick English university is an all but officially stated guarantee of admission - trust me on this one.
My tutor said he would investigate after the deadline had passed.</blockquote>
That makes it very unlikely that you will get in if your first is not from a red-brick, no matter how high your grades are?
After all surely Cambridge are virtually oversubscribed already once they have given places to those with firsts from red-brick+ and there are very few places left for those of us at rubbish universities? (I'm a mature student, only place that I could study was a non red-brick).
Do Cambridge publish any kind of admission statistics? Curious to look at this in more detail</blockquote>
I'd take everything that's said in here with a pinch of salt. Getting a First from a red-brick is by no means a guarantee. First of all, I know people from my university (Russel Group, Top 5) who got a First and were rejected last year. One of my best friends is doing the LL.M. at Cambridge and at least half the people came from newer universities or foreign universities that aren't even ranked.
I am pretty sure they look at your profile as a whole. Just think about who you would you prefer: a student from a red-brick university with poor references and virtually no work experience or someone from a newer university with an excellent CV and strong references?
If two candidates have the same profile your university might give you an edge. Apart from that I don't think it's that important where you did your undergrad.</blockquote>
Getting a first from a redbrick is essentially, in all but exceptional (and it has yet to happen) cases, a de facto guarantee of admission.
I know people who got firsts but didn't get admission either - but they applied whilst still at uni, and therefore didn't have accrued firsts.
As for people who are not from redbricks - I said nothing about them whatsoever - my post is no discouragement to them (in fact I recently just posted that one of the best legal academics who taught me went to do her first law degree from one of the lowest rated unis in the country, followed by the Cambridge LLM and now is at UCL).
Foreign students are a whole different game.
